Obviously the answer is mostly “drugs” but it really is kind of fascinating to me how Musk oscillates between “a post scarcity utopian future is at hand!” and “the mongrel races are coming to claim the persecuted white man’s scarce resources in a zero sum game!”

The last line here is very funny. “Look, after we cause mass unemployment on a level unseen since the Great Depression, I worry there could be a public backlash if it turns we weren’t candid enough about it beforehand”

Tangential.
But such a fun paper.

www.jstor.org/stable/259934

"...on they came at a precipitous rate, stunted jaundiced horrors cyclopean and half-clothed, dull mouths agape, crying "pip, pip" and "hello buddies" in their grotesque subhuman voices. I crouched in my hiding place. "Poopay," they gibbered. "POOPAY!" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Banana on the Threshold"

The fact that Russia is barely treading water in its war with Ukraine & likely to ultimately lose the war is a real testament to how colossal of a gap there is now between the quality of Ukrainian & Russian governmental institutions, and that's despite Ukr ones being pretty crooked and incompetent!

if it were, in fact, that other thing, the post would have been about the other thing

It’s extremely funny that Patel’s lawyers decided to spread allegations that got cut from the published story

"Isn't this [cultural product] just ____" No, it isn't. Thank you for your attention to this matter

it would have been just the fog you see in discos

but most of all, they just see your wallet and think it looks too way too full. why don't you take some of that dough and put it on draftkings or kalshi

they want to turn your son or little brother into an strutting little idiot that repeats andrew tate quotes during job interviews

they want to sexually harass your partner at work or pick up your daughter from high school

i feel very tired of playing defense on this issue. we really need to just say outright "they want to take all of your money and poison you"

republicans are the biggest risks to men if measured statistically. they want you to spend all of your money on sports gambling apps and crypto scams and then die an early death from roid abuse and supplements

because no one is either willing to move forward on gun control or spur police to be more aggressive

at this rate we are going to see little kids having to practice military 'react to contact' drills

right now we're in a negative loop. gun control is dead in the water. police are intimidated by armed suspects. so what ends up happening are high-profile incidents that redirect the "do something" energy to the path of least resistance, which is fortification

iirc the fact that Umbrella had a lot of USG contracts was one of the major reasons it got away with a lot of its crimes. Which is beginning to look more plausible these days unfortunately

this is a third rail that people don't want to touch for a lot of reasons but it is becoming more and more obvious

i think there's an elephant in the room in a lot of these stories (uvalde in particular) which is that police are easily deterred by the prospect of a gunman with a rifle

this is a chicken running, joyously, into the arms of colonel sanders, bawk-bawking "he gets me! he's on my side!"

in both parties, a good chunk of the unfavorable shift is being driven by anti-semitism. but only one party (the one he is going to) is building its domestic and foreign policy around rants about "globalists" and "pharisees"

people like dershowitz think that they are going to escape the enormous change in US public opinion by becoming right wing, just like they did in the cold war and after 9/11

but it's not going to work

even the overall numbers for (58% favorable, 41% unfavorable) really don't look that great

i've got bad news for you alan. 57% of republicans under 50 have a negative opinion of israel

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

custer dies before the indians even show up because of minion mayhem

hitler has them rounded up and orders them to be shot due to his suspicion they are american spies, but this only leads to the july 20 plot succeeding because stauffenberg has a minion blow up hitler instead of needing to do the risky suitcase bomb scheme

the minions, in fact, almost certainly hasten the end of ww2’s european theater by knocking italy out of the war and making the grueling allied invasion much easier

before this, many of italy’s worst blunders, like its invasion of greece, are substantially worsened by minion participation

the implication of this is that the minions bungle the execution of operation oak, getting both mussolini and otto skorzeny killed, because they get so wrapped up in how fun gliders are